Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire

Clumber wood pasture with ancient oaks (photo credit: Brian Muelaner)

Clumber wood pasture with ancient oaks (photo credit: Brian Muelaner)
Clumber Park has some excellent ancient and veteran trees, particularly within the lapsed wood pasture, but also scattered around the magnificent parkland. Clumber’s particular claim to fame is its common lime avenue, Tilia x Europaea, which is 2 miles long and contains 1296 trees, making it the longest avenue of its type in Europe.
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Colin Watkin says:
Posted February 10, 2023 at 3:59 pm
I’m familiar with grease banding of fruit trees but why treat lime trees or are the black bands for another purpose? It spoils their natural beauty and seems unnecessary to me.
Adam Greenwold says:
Posted August 17, 2023 at 11:33 am
I too would like to know why the limes have grease bands?